ClearSpace, a Swiss space company, has secured clearance from the European Space Agency after the company’s first program review of...

Life began on Earth more than 3.5 billion years ago, but the history of humans and other vertebrates accounts for only a fraction of this timescale. Chordates (a group that includes vertebrates) and echinoderms (like starfish and sea urchins) are believed to …

Chemists say thin films of PBDF hold great potential for flexible electronics

Several studies have predicted that the water splitting reaction could be catalyzed by certain groups of 2D materials—each measuring just a few atoms thick. One particularly promising group are named 2D Janus materials, whose two sides each feature a differen…

Granular materials contain large numbers of small, discrete particles, which collectively behave like uniform media. Their thermal conductivity is crucial to understanding their overall behavior—but so far, researchers haven't considered how this value is aff…

Researchers have recorded new insights which could help advance the next generation of solar fuels

According to a study, when scientists transformed a single regulatory gene in a sea anemone species, a stinging cell that normally shoots a venomous miniature harpoon for hunting and self-defence switched to shooting a sticky thread that entangles prey.

Nothing in this Universe is eternal — not even the stars.

The splashdown of NASA’s Orion spacecraft last month in the Pacific Ocean may have ended the successful Artemis I mission, but humankind’s return to the moon is just getting started, and with it a fantastic opportunity for Canada.

A team of researchers has made an unusual discovery: a series of "heartbeat"-like radio bursts emanating from a solar flare above the Sun's surface.

Scientists have successfully recorded brain activity from freely moving octopuses, a feat made possible by implanting electrodes and a data logger directly into the creatures.

When looking at the Earth from space, its hemispheres—northern and southern—appear equally bright. This is particularly unexpected because the Southern Hemisphere is mostly covered with dark oceans, whereas the Northern Hemisphere has a vast land area that is…

A team from the University of Edinburgh has described it as a technological breakthrough.

It's not easy to make sense of quantum-scale motion, but a new mathematical theory developed by scientists at Rice University and Oxford University could help—and may provide insight into improving a variety of computing, electrochemical and biological system…

A team from the University of Edinburgh has described it as a technological breakthrough.

The two brightest planets in our sky are getting cozy this month. Jupiter and Venus will appear close together each evening just after sunset and will be visible near the waxing crescent Moon.

ESA’s Hera asteroid mission for planetary defence is about to gain its sight. Two complete and fully tested Asteroid Framing Cameras have reached OHB in Germany for integration aboard Hera’s payload module. This instrument will provide the very first sta…

Australia’s Swinburne University of Technology research team said they expected to find little galaxies close to the dawn of the universe, not such whoppers.

Researchers at Harvard University, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Arizona State University, and other institutes in the United States have recently observed an antiferromagnetic metal phase in electron-doped NdNiO3 a material known to be a non-col…

A RESURFACED image of a seemingly innocent night sky actually has a dark secret. At first glance, the image captured by Europes LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) radio telescope looks like it’s pac…

Astronomers report the detection of two new gas giant exoplanets using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). The newfound alien worlds, designated TOI-3984A b and TOI-5293A b, have very short orbital periods. The discovery was detailed in a pap…

Although it is relatively small, Enceladus—the sixth largest of Saturn's 83 moons—has been considered by astronomers to be one of the more compelling bodies in our solar system.

A research group from Finland has unlocked the secret behind the extraordinary mechanical properties and ultra-light weight of certain fungi.

A huge attraction has been gained in drug delivery and therapy by micro or nanorobots with self-propelling and -navigating capabilities as a result of their controllable locomotion in inaccessible body tissues.

Using artificial intelligence, researchers can now identify zircons derived from valuable copper deposits.